Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots |
| 2 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 3 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |
| 4 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
| 5 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 6 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 7 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 8 | You can not , you can not give them the the national curriculum book ! |
| 9 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 10 | If they ca n't help you speak to the feed companies themselves , and if they can not give you the information you want do n't buy their feed , its as simple as that ! |
| 11 | I can not give you the exact quantities you should use , for it will vary from one water to another according to the carp population . |
| 12 | All this may seem like a put-off — but so many have died through lack of thought , facilities and impatience I can not give you the impression that they are going to be cheap and easy , quite the reverse ! |
| 13 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 14 | It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice . |
| 15 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
| 16 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
| 17 | As I increased Cleveland 's capital allocation from £2.9 million to £3.8 million , I can not accept what the hon. Gentleman says . |
| 18 | I can not envisage what the circumstances will be in 20 years ' time . |
| 19 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 20 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 21 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 22 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 23 | The point is that whether descriptions are knowledge or behaviour oriented , type or token , they can not determine what the teacher does . |
| 24 | It is very simple : the artist can not allow himself the luxury of letting himself be manipulated passively by our culture . |
| 25 | A man divided can not allow himself the luxury of complacency . |
| 26 | We can not allow ourselves the empty luxury of doubt . ’ |
| 27 | He is a devil , but you can not help what the gods … ’ |
| 28 | Then they can not have what the larger community regards as the necessary minimum for decency … . |
| 29 | You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like . |
| 30 | I can not imagine who the people were who thought up such fiendish dodges , but they stopped at nothing . |